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The Principles Of Silicone Valley Put Simply

The principles of Silicone Valley:
Take intelligent and bold risks to accomplish something great.
Build a network of alliances to help you with intelligence, resources, and collective action.
Pivot to breakout opportunity.
You too can think like a start-up—like an entrepreneur—whoever you are and whatever you do.
From: The Start-up Of You, Reid Hoffman [cofounder and chairman of Linkedin] and Ben Casnocha

Posted at 09:07 AM in Books, Inspiration, Small Business | | Comments (0)

Who else doesn't know what to read next?

This might be useful. Personally, I have this problem—never know what to read next.
I end up on amazon and google, searching for lists people have made with books similar to the ones I'm reading.
Then I find books that might work, and have to read the table of contents or reviews and try to assess whether I'm going to like it.
Next thing I know I've lost an hour. BORING.
Maybe some of the sites listed on this cool blog post can help:
5 cool sites to help you choose books
What do you do to find your next book?

Posted at 09:08 AM in Books | | Comments (0)

Be more like Kurt Vonnegut - 8 ways to be more interesting

Kurt-vonnegut In the book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut made a list of eight rules for creating a short story.
I would like to repurpose them as:
A list of ways to be more interesting
1. Use the time of a listener in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the listener at least one idea or fact he or she can connect with and root for.
3. Every idea should be supported by the desire to achieve something.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character -- in you or the topic -- or advance an action you want the listener to take.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading topic, discuss the awful things that have, will, or could happen - in order that the listener may see what you, or the topic, are made of.
7. Talk to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your listeners as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Listeners should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves.
 

Posted at 10:14 AM in Books, Business Management, Marketing, Weblogs | | Comments (0)